Hilarious, just what we need to cheer us up through yet another lock down! Would make a great stocking filler or joke birthday present.

Sadly, I was unable to download this book in time before it was archived and this I was not able to either read or review it. My apologies.

Humorous and lighthearted throughout.
Reminiscent of other adult tongue-in-cheek style books.
This certainly captures the British way of coping (or not) and you have to laugh at seeing it all laid out and how ridiculous we can all be when there is an emergency;)

Humorous and short book on the madness we find ourselves in right now. If you’re a fan of the grown up ladybird books this one is for you.

As a fan of those Ladybird books for grown-ups, I thought this little booklet might be a laugh too, and it was.

A typically British tongue-in-cheek list of things to do whilst in lockdown. I especially liked the do's and don'ts at the back of the book and will be taking the suggestions very seriously indeed ;)

Heaven knows, a bit of light and fluffy reading has been in short supply in recent times and was sorely needed by this bookworm, who was sick to death of the doom and gloom in her real life!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quercus for the read.

I laughed a lot and loved this short, sharp and extremely funny book.
I strongly recommend to anyone who want to laugh and look on the funny side of these bleak times.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Day 3952nd of March (that’s what it feels like anyway!) in lockdown and NetGalley /Quercus kindly sent me a copy of ‘Instructions for The British People During the Emergency’. I spent an enjoyable half hour reading it. It made me feel better about the weird situation that we are all in, so I am grateful to Jason Hazeley for that. It is a satirically comic take on the current situation and is a lot like the Ladybird for Grownups series of books (but without pictures). This book probably (hopefully?) has a short shelf life (and I’m not sure whether it will become a historical document) but I thoroughly recommend it.

As someone who regularly reads dystopian fiction, finding myself in the depths of a global pandemic while working and homeschooling two kids meant a very swift change of genre was needed. Instructions for the British People During The Emergency seemed like the perfect thing to read.

A quick and hilarious handbook for surviving an emergency. There is advice for how to survive looking after the children, working from home, and tips for when the emergency ends. I found the book to be spot on about how many of us are experiencing the current lockdown, with amusing suggestions for making things more bearable.

A short, sharp and humorous read. This book is a great pick me up when you’re in need of a good chuckle.

This is a perfect read for fans of Philomena Cunk; I could easily imagine her narrating this handbook.

It was inevitable that the COVID-19 epidemic would eventually be satirised, and we all need a belly laugh or two about now.

Jason Hazeley's book is a brief and helpful guide from Sir Clement Apricot-Wilson of the Department of Unforeseen Circumstances, on how the British people should conduct themselves during the COVID lockdowns. Important topics such as working from home, personal hygiene and keeping your children under some semblance of control are covered. There are helpful lists of dos and don'ts. If the British people are prepared to follow Sir Clement's strictures then they may get through this dark time relatively unscathed. Or not.

‘Instructions For The British People During The Emergency’ is an incredibly amusing short book written by two very talented comedy writers.
It is obviously incredibly apt at this time, but as it aimed at any emergency, rather than the particular one we are facing at the moment, this book will stand the test of time and is not only something to fill ones time during lockdown.
There are some brilliantly funny laugh out loud ‘pieces of advice’ contained in the book and is guaranteed to put a smile on even the grumpiest of faces.
Highly recommend this amusing handbook!
Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for a Kindle copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Short, sharp and funny. I had read the Famous Five Do...series and thought it ...meh. But this one actually made me laugh out loud or at least guffaw.
“With their labours suspended, most people will find themselves short of a penny. After all, they must still eat – and most gardens from The Before Times contain not a replete vegetable patch, but a trampoline, which is far harder to peel and boil.”
A concise guide to brave the current and future emergencies. Hope the final version will include Cummings-Gate!

I enjoyed reading the Ladybird books for Grown-ups which were also written by Jason Hazeley. When I was offered a preview copy of this book, I decided to read it.
This book is a humorous account of the rules of Self-isolation and of how to survive and prepare for the Pandemic.
There are many entertaining and farcical moments in this book. It is a lighthearted read and parodies multiple idiosyncrasies of the British people.
I did think that this book could have possibly been published a little earlier, as the publishing date is after Lockdown is meant to be partially lifted.Nevertheless this is a good distraction and an amusing read.

A very amusing handbook for these interesting times

I was pre-approved for this on NetGalley, and decided to give it a try on a bit on a whim. I'm very glad that I did, because this is at times very funny. As it turned out, this book is just the antidote for these strange and difficult times I was looking for. Very enjoyable.

Presented in the form of an old-fashioned instruction manual/handbooks distributed during the Second World War, this book is packed with amusing suggestions for how to survive the pandemic -- or "The Emergency" as it's referred to. Many of the suggestions and proscriptions contained within the book are indeed excellent, and not only relevant to times of self-isolation, etc.

I'm not entirely sure how to review this book. It's not very long, but it is highly quotable -- to the point where to do so might ruin the fun of reading it for yourself. It is also filled with call-backs to previous jokes contained within, so I'm sure some of the parts that had me laughing out loud might not really land when taken out of context.

There are suggestions that range across a great number of topics. Some, more general...

"One of the most popular ways to deal with a situation one is unused to is by not coping at all... substances that are usually reserved for a celebration might begin to look like breakfast"

... some related to managing childcare during The Emergency...

"Gin and loud music can nullify the feelings of parental exhaustion to a point, but ultimately it is you that must bring your children under control whilst still appearing to love them."

Other topics covered include personal hygiene and staying healthy, intimate relations during the pandemic (not the best portion of the book, but still pretty amusing), working from home, what to expect after the Emergency, and a list of dos and don'ts (many of which were probably relevant in the Before Times, too, actually).

I read this in a couple of hours, and recited a good deal of it to my partner (I didn't ask her if she wanted to hear the funny bits, but I had to share them anyway). I am not someone who typically laughs out loud when reading -- I'm more likely to chuckle, snort or make some other noise of amusement, but rarely will I LOL. Reading this, though, I did so frequently. The Behaviour Checklist, I think is my favourite section in the book.

If you are finding these pandemic days to be a bit much, or are just looking for a pick-me-up, then I think Instructions for the British People During the Emergency may very well be just the ticket.

Very funny, I would definitely recommend this for anyone who needs a break during these otherwise rather dour times.

One of the authors of the Ladybird Books For Grown-Ups collaborates on a not dissimilar piss-take of All This. There are no pictures, at least not in the Netgalley ARC, and I don't altogether understand the economics of publishing an impulse check-out purchase now that all fun shops are shut, all surviving check-outs are fortified, and any shopping trip is more a military exercise than the opportunity for capitalist whimsy it was in the before times. But, much like those Ladybirds, it does a much better job than one might expect of turning unutterable awfulness (those tense supermarket trips, domestic confinement, enforced separation) into comedy. Pretty much every page has something quotable, so I might as well minimise spoilers and go with the beginning of the first chapter, The British Story So Far:
"Britain is* an interesting and varied country.

*Or, was."